红旗渠英文导游词电子教案

2024年3月30日发(作者：欧阳中石)

the Red Flag Canal .

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! It’s so nice to meet you

here!

First of all, plea allow me to introduce us to you. My name

is Li, you can call me English name Heather, your local guide

from Henan Youth Travel Agency, while our driver is Mr. Wang

who is rious and very experienced. So you are in safe hand.

On behalf of Henan Youth Travel Agency, we would like to

extend our warmest welcome to you: welcome to Henan. During

your stay in Henan, we two would do our utmost to make your

stay pleasant! And your cooperation would be appreciated! If

you have troubles or problems, don’t be hesitated to tell us. We

would be very plead to help you. Wish you a wonderful stay

in Henan! Thank you!

Perhaps it is the first time for you to visit Henan, so I’d like

to give you a brief introduction about it!

Henan province, also called “Yu” for short, meaning a man

pulling an elephant, is situated right in the heart of china,

covering an area of 167,000 square kilometers, with a total

population of 97 million, which is the largest of all provinces in

China.

Henan is also named “central plain” or “Central State”, for

over 4,000 years ago, China was divided into nine state. Henan

was called Yu State, and was located in the middle of the nine

state, hence the name. And you may heard Anyang, a city which

has a long history.

Located in the utmost northern part of Henan, bordering

Shanxi in the west and Hebei in the north, the city of Anyang

rves as the north gate of Henan. Well-known as one of the

state historic and cultural cities, Anyang boasts a history of over

3000 years and is one of the birthplaces of Chine nation.

Today I’d like to show you the Red Flag Canal, which have

been named by the state as the bas for patriotic education.

To the northwest of Anyang lies a city called Linzhou, which

sounds a stranger to most people. However, if one starts to talk

about the Red Flag Canal of Linxian County, the album of old

days will unfold itlf in surges. In 1960s when the PRC was

suffering its most terrible economic nightmares, the heroic

people from Linxian County raid money on their own and

began to cut tunnels through mountains and build bridges across

gullies with hands, hammers, drills and the tiny bit of lf-made

explosive. A decade pasd. The Taihang Mountain witnesd

the birth of a Milky Way on the earth, the Red-Flag Canal . The

canal, being compod of trunk, lateral and branch ctions,

extends 1,500 kilometers along the Taihang Range. Along it the

turbulent Zhuozhang River roars all the way to Linzhou City

and rewrites the generations' history of the county as a place in

shortage of water. Forty years was gone, today the Zhuozhang

River is stilling running tamely along the mountain and

nourishing the beautiful city of Linzhou . We, as admirers of

miracle, came to the city in early November to pay our due

respect to the Red Flag Canal.

So, now plea take your valuable things along with you

and get ready to get off the bus.

Linzhou's history was a history of floods and droughts. In order

to survive, local people struggled unyieldingly against natural

calamity. They tried every possible means, digging

water-retention wells and holes in courtyards, storing rain and

snow, and drawing water from springs and rivers. All came to

nothing. Whenever a drought occurred, there was no water for

people and animals to drink, let alone water for irrigation. They

had to cross mountains and fetch water from afar. That is very

inconvenient for local people.

In 1960's local government worked out the plan to draw water

from Zhang River , making up mind to transform it. After

careful rearch and consideration, the government identified

Zhang River in Pingshun County of Shanxi Province as the

potential source of hope. Working together with parties

concerned, the courageous people from Linxian County started

their fight against nature just after the Spring Festival of

the cour of ten years' bard work, with the simple tools as

hammers and drills, they cut tunnels through mountains and

built bridges across gullies. The earth and stone involved could

build a 3-meter-high and 2-meter-wide Great Wall leading from

the Southern Guangzhou to Northern Harbin.

After its completion the Red Flag Canal solved the problem

of water shortage for the Linxian County and a tourist attraction

in the Linlv Mountain. Reputed by the visitors as the man-made

Milky Way and the Contemporary Great Wall, it has attracted

some 40,000 people from 130 countries and regions. However,

what benefits the Linxian people most is the spirit developed in

the cour of the construction of the canal. The spirit can be

summarized as lf-reliance, teamwork and hard struggle.

Becau of this spirit the Red Flag Canal has been listed by the

state as one of the bas for patriotic education to young people.

The main scenic spots of the Red Flag Canal include the

General Trunk Canal, Bifurcation Gate and the Youth Cave.

Plea come with me. Let’s go to the Bifurcation Gate. The

Bifurcation Gate plays an important role in this regard. It is not

only a water control for the three trunk canals but also a water

divide geographically. Water in the south runs into Henghe

River and water in the north runs into Zhanghe River . It took

great pains for the decision-makers and designers to work it out

properly. Becau if the water of the canal could not cross over

the Bifurcation Gate, the irrigation area would be limited to the

nearby two towns, reaching only about 12000 acres of arable

land. The source of the canal locates on the slop of Houbi Cliff,

Shicheng Town of Pingshun County in Shanxi Province. The

trunk canal, being built in the hilly slope of Taihang Mountain,

is 70.6 kilometers long, 8 meters wide at the bottom and 4.3

meters high. The designed flow capacity is 25 cubic meters per

cond. The sluice gate lets out two flows, the left one meeting

Hero Canal in Hejian Town. The cond one running eastward

to Madian Village of Hengshui Town , width of 3.5 meters at

the bottom. When the river reaches the 500-meter point, the

third canal shows up and goes all the way eastward. The

crisscross network of trunk, lateral and branch canals provides

irrigation for the 88,962- acre farming land in Linxian County

Plea keep going with me. Let’s go to the Youth Cave. The

Youth Cave is a very high tunnel in Linlu Mountain . Standing

at the ominous position one could not help trembling with the

wind. There are a lot of calligraphic works painted by famous

artists around. The natural landscape can be described as

dramatic, magnificent, perilous and overwhelming. It is at the

position where one could fully interpret the proverb, People, and

people alone, are the driving force of world history. In the most

difficult days 300 young people gathered here to build the

300-meter-long and 8-meter-wide tunnel. Life then was very

hard and the workers could hardly have enough to feed

themlves. Though ration per person per day was less than 0.7

pounds, the strenuous labor did not frighten them away. The

young people fed themlves with herbs and algae, as a result of

which, many turned dropsically from malnutrition. Out of

concerns for their health the local authority asked the young

people to quit for the time being, yet they became rebellious and

continued with the work. In order to honor the young people

the cave was named the Youth Cave after them. And you can

also e the inscription of the cave. Mr. Guo Moruo, the famous

scholar and Vice Chairman of NPC Standing Committee, wrote

an inscription for the Cave in 1973. Tourists are ud to taking

pictures here. The Red-Flag Canal is the very spiritual

monument deeply rooted in our Chine blood.

OK, so much for my explanation. Thank you for your

cooperation. Now you have 40 minute to go around. We will

meet at 5:30 in the parking lot. Plea remember the time and

our bus number, Yu A 12345. Enjoy yourlves.